I refuse to be bullied into silence: Professor Kathleen Stock in the Mail on Sunday

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"I refuse to be bullied into silence: PROFESSOR KATHLEEN STOCK was ostracised and denounced by 600 colleagues because she dared to challenge the trans orthodoxy sweeping Britain...

"The effects of this lobbying can be seen everywhere. From placing trans women – some of them sex offenders – in female prisons, to the rise of ‘gender-neutral’ toilets and changing rooms, to trans women being placed on shortlists for women’s prizes and a rethink of women’s sport, the alterations have been rapid and seismic.
The Stonewall campaign group has been particularly influential with its simple and powerful message – that trans people are an intensely vulnerable minority and that to help them, we must recognise individuals’ ‘gender identity’, not biological sex, wherever possible.

Government departments, the judiciary, media organisations, schools and – most significantly for me – universities have embraced this message. I abhor discrimination against trans people but I also believe we should be free to examine the effects of changes, including any costs to women and the rights of gay people, and to the health of children wishing to change gender.
As a lesbian with teenage children, these topics are close to my heart. As an academic philosopher whose job it is to investigate truth, they are even closer. I believe we should be free to discuss these things in public."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9155659/I-refuse-bullied-silence-PROFESSOR-KATHLEEN-STOCK.html

Excellent headline too:
PROFESSOR KATHLEEN STOCK was ostracised and denounced by 600 colleagues because she dared to challenge the trans orthodoxy sweeping Britain

And then some bite-sized relevant facts for those (most people) who don’t know all the background:
Professor Kathleen Stock was given an OBE in the latest New Year Honours List
The Stonewall campaign group has been particularly influential with message
A book of interviews was dropped from publication by Oxford University Press

I’ve stopped apologising for recommending Daily Mail reports. It’s honest in a way The Guardian has long forgotten.

I knew the witch hunt had been bad. I hadn’t realised quite how awful.

I was attacked on Twitter the other day for daring to comment on one of her posts. It made me think twice when I saw another of her comments, though I went ahead anyway. But it made me think about how easy it would be to stop interacting to avoid the unpleasantry - and it was deeply unpleasant. How easy it would be to isolate her.

Depressing that it is still so bad for female academics. Sad there are so few of them who feel able to stand beside them.

Thank you Kathleen, if you are reading this. Your strength of character is a shining example and I hope, an inspiration to all others who could afford to speak openly, but choose not to do so for personal comfort.

As Prof Stock has remarked The Guardian describes only the world it wants to see on this issue.

It abandoned any semblance of balance or fair dealing some time ago and refuses to acknowledge how gender ideology insults women and affects them in practice.

Thank you Kathleen, if you are reading this. Your strength of character is a shining example and I hope, an inspiration to all others who could afford to speak openly, but choose not to do so for personal comfort.

Hear, hear. I'm absolutely in awe of her resilience.

I am in constant awe at Kathleen’s bravery

Dr.Stock

She deserves a letter. The nice thing about a postal delivery is that everyone becomes aware and her university need to know she has support. We've done it before, she deserves our obvious support. We can't be totally shut down, there is always a way. I'm using

Dr Kathleen Stock OBE
Professor of Philosophy
University of Sussex
Sussex House
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9RH

Thanks for the article op- I am definitely warming to the Mail for its continuing clarity and fortitude on this subject.

It is interesting that only two comments are showing (both positive) - made last night as soon as the article was published - I guess the Sunday moderators will be busy ploughing through more but the upratings for each comment are about 4500 - that’s a good number.

As a more general thing I do wonder if anyone in a position of authority actually pays any attention to the Mail and the Times comments - they are definitely an indication of a growing resistance and an increase in the number of people ‘educating themselves’.

Several hundred comments now, though they might take a while to load.

Excellent comments under the article (which is exceptionally good). The comments under the Hannah Mouncey article in the same edition are also great.

The like to dislike ratios are superb